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Snapchat is reportedly working on third-party access controls(theverge.com)
2 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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Siren raises $3.4M for smart socks that track diabetic health(techcrunch.com)
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Cambridge Analytica Might Have to Return Advertising Award(theintercept.com)
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Rackspace may reportedly go public again after a $4.3B deal took it private(techcrunch.com)
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3D printed rocket maker Relativity raises $35M to simplify satellite launches(techcrunch.com)
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by bitumen 9y ago
Of course just being gay isn’t a crime in glorious motherland, but promoting homosexuality is. That’s so broad that it includes being openly gay, or standing up for your rights if you’re gay. It’s sort of like saying that it’s not illegal t
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by bitumen 9y ago
It’s ironic, but true that telling someone they’re pompous is almost always in itself, very pompous. In general I find that making a reasoned argument is inevitably more valuable and convincing than calling people names. Calling names is s
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by bitumen 9y ago
I think the public will probably feel the same way, but if this happens again with another company, I think there will be sustained backlash. Hopefully Waymo is as advanced as they’re advertising, and given what a terrible company Uber is b
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This Spinning Moon Shows Where Debris from Giant Impacts Fell(sciencenews.org)
1 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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by bitumen 9y ago
How is the top comment here a weak version of, “come on in, the water is fine” when Facebook keeps dripping scandal? A lot of armchair investors and professionally apathetic people the last couple of days, and they’re all making the same cl
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by bitumen 9y ago
It’s a turgid fantasy that you can predict, buy, and incubate the next big thing reliably. If that were true, there would be no failed VC’s.
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by bitumen 9y ago
People have a right to free expression, they don’t have a right to have thst expression amplified by third parties. I’ve noticed that when an emotive word is overused, often with a new word in front of it, it’s bullshit. “Mob censorship” “w
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by bitumen 9y ago
I really don’t care if building codes, automotive safety regulations, and standards of medical care make it hard on new businesses. My priorities are not dying in a car crash, my home not falling on my head, and avoiding incompetent doctors
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by bitumen 9y ago
I don’t think it’s ad hominem if it’s all completely true, and relevant to the subject at hand. “Consider the source” is different from, “dismiss this, because of the source.” It’s an article that makes a good point, but it’s also good to r
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Massive Hack by Iran Allegedly Stole Research from 320 Uni’s, Govs, Institutions(sciencemag.org)
3 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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by bitumen 9y ago
Good point, and that’s definitely why early intervention and prevention is the preferred modality for treatment of psychosis. This is weaponizing the opposite of that, for “crowd control” I guess.
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by bitumen 9y ago
Lasers are strictly line-of-sight, and don’t go through walls. Laser would make a poor candidate, and wouldn’t cause brain damage.
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by bitumen 9y ago
I’m still pretty sure that they’re mostly paranoid schizophrenics, but this is more or less what “targeted individuals” claim is being done to them. Technology makes it harder and harder to reach delusional people, when their delusions beco
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The Beautiful Complexity of Naming Every Living Thing(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by bitumen 9y ago|1 comments
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Should We Hit the Brakes on Self-Driving Technology?(undark.org)
1 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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DIY Tech Is Helping Scientists Keep Up with Marine Life(atlasobscura.com)
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Think Cryptocurrency Is Confusing? Try Paying Taxes on It(nytimes.com)
1 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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by bitumen 9y ago
I want to agree with you, but realistically I think a lot of people have come to view Amazon at least, as pretty indispensable. Between their retail offerings, and AWS, they’re into a lot!
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Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy?(theatlantic.com)
4 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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by bitumen 9y ago
How many of those daily active users are bots, spammers, cloned accounts, webscrapers, or people logging on for two seconds because they sent or received one message, or want to do one thing? Do they count people using them to login to othe
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Complex Animals Led to More Oxygen, Says Maverick Theory(quantamagazine.org)
53 points by bitumen 9y ago|5 comments
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by bitumen 9y ago
Depends how it goes. Facebook is testing the proposition: Do people love tech companies so much they will live inside of them? People are increasingly afraid of tech companies, not in love with them. We’re all pretty dependent on them, bu
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by bitumen 9y ago
Feeding an addiction doesn’t lead to happiness, it staves off withdrawel. Happiness is a positive thing, not the absence of a negative thing. Addictions also tend to lead to other addictions, since the underlying “circuitry” is the same, in
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by bitumen 9y ago
The real name policy doesn’t seem to stop duplicate accounts, bots, and spammers on FaceBook or Twitter, it just ensures they have vaguely human names.
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It’s Disturbingly Easy to Buy Iraq’s Archeological Treasures(theatlantic.com)
4 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments

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